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Republican Donald Trump's victory in Wisconsin was reaffirmed Monday following a recount that showed him defeating Democrat Hillary Clinton by more than 22,000 votes.
Wisconsin finalized its recount on the same day that a federal judge issued a stinging rejection of a Green Party-backed request to recount paper ballots in Pennsylvania's presidential election and scan some counties' election systems for signs of hacking.
Green Party candidate Jill Stein successfully requested, and paid for, the Wisconsin recount while her attempts for similar statewide recounts in Pennsylvania and Michigan were blocked by the courts. Stein only got about 1 percent of the vote in each of the states that Trump narrowly won on his way to the White House. She argued, without evidence, that voting machines...

After peddling the now-debunked conspiracy theory that so-called voting experts found irregularities in voting patterns in key swing states, a CNN opinion writer is finally telling Hillary supporters they better not get their hopes up.
In addition, as we previously reported, the Obama White House itself has poured cold water on the pro-Trump hacker conspiracy theory stating ‘We believe our elections were free and fair from a cyber security perspective.”
Joshua Douglas of CNN writes
Now that Clinton’s campaign has said it will participate in the recount efforts, those supporters’ hopes have been lifted even higher. To put the matter bluntly: They should give up that hope.
There is essentially zero chance that the recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania will chan

President-elect Donald Trump early Sunday predicted that a recount effort in three states will not change the results of the election.
“Hillary Clinton conceded the election when she called me just prior to the victory speech and after the results were in. Nothing will change,” he tweeted.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/802849330176659456
Green Party candidate Jill Stein on Friday filed for a recount in Wisconsin. She is raising funds for similar efforts in Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Stein on Saturday defended her push after Trump called it a "scam" to fill Green Party coffers.
“The point to drive home here is that having a secure elections process benefits us all,” Stein said during an appearance on CNN’s “Newsroom.”
An attorney for Hillary Clinton’s campaign